BT Express: Do It 'till You're Satisfied / Function at the Junction (Edsel)A double dose of the Brooklyn disco funkers. Do It... is the superior effort and a sampling hip-hopper's delight.

Elvis Costello: King of America (Edsel)Produced with T-Bone Burnett in 1986, this rootsy LP is one of Costello's best, now
complete with an essay on its making from the king himself.

Gil Scott-Heron: Winter in America (Charly)Heron's incendiary breakthrough still stands up as a jazz fusion pillar stone, with a social conscience to boot. Includes Jungle Bros' favourite 'The Bottle'.

Bob Dylan: The Times They Are Achangin' (Sony BMG)Bob at his most earnest - although 'Boots of Spanish Leather' is one of his most tender songs - reissued as part of the ongoing SACD release series.

DJ Shadow: Entroducing (Island)A pioneering disc from the cut'n'paste connoisseur that shifted the hip-hop axis with its spooky introspection and drifting eclecticism.

Miles Davis: My Funny Valentine (Columbia)An effortlessly fluid live recording from 1964 which sparks off the collective skills of players including saxophonist George Coleman and Herbie Hancock on piano.

Bobby Womack: Across 110th Street (Snapper)The soundtrack to a 1972 blaxploitation flck, featuring incidental music and the classic title track - later memorably borrowed by QuentinTarantino for Jackie Brown.